Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to: Dr Zui-Shen Yen Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No.7, ...

Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety research Unit (HEPSU), Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Hignett Healthcare ...

Correspondence to Dr You Hwan Jo, Emergency medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13620, the Republic of Korea; emdrjyh{at}gmail.com Background Ischaemic tissue injury caused ...

Healthcare organisations have started to examine the impact that the human worker has on patient safety. Adopting the Crew Resource Management (CRM) approach, used in aviation, the CRM or ...

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Critical Care, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USA Dr T L Slesinger, Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore University Hospital ...

Background Sepsis is associated with a 36% mortality rate rising up to 50% for septic shock. Currently when an East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) clinician recognises ‘red flag’ sepsis, only the ...

Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

The Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Correspondence to: Dr N Sharma, The Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate ...

Background Paramedics increasingly utilise alternative care pathways and direct referrals to reduce Emergency Department admissions. The National Institute of Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) Transient ...

Correspondence to Mr Tesfay Mehari Atey, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; tesfaymehari.atey{at}utas.edu.au Background Pharmacists have an ...

Department of Neurosurgery, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland. Blood loss from scalp lacerations may be considerable. Two cases are described to illustrate the hazards of transferring ...

3 Gold Coast Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia 4 Toowoomba Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Toowoomba, Queensland ...